Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

God uses whoever he wants.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Do not be afraid to cast yourselves into the arms of God; whatever he asks of you, he will repay a hundredfold.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.